BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260710T140143Z UID:83acd031-0284-4955-ba23-4ef0ca1a6006 DTSTART:20171129T100000Z DTEND:20171201T150000Z DESCRIPTION:This course provides an introduction to High-Performance Comput ing (HPC) for researchers in the life sciences\, using ARCHER as a platfor m for hands-on training exercises.\n\nThe course is organised and funded b y BioExcel - the Centre of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Resea rch (http://bioexcel.eu) and PRACE\, and delivered in collaboration with A RCHER - the UK national supercomputing service (http://archer.ac.uk).\n\nO verview\n\nHigh-performance computing (HPC) is a fundamental technology us ed to solve a wide range of scientific research problems. Many important c hallenges in science such as protein folding\, the search for the Higgs bo son\, drug discovery\, and the development of nuclear fusion all depend on simulations\, models and analyses run on HPC facilities to make progress. \n \nThis course introduces HPC to life science researchers\, focusing on the aspects that are most important for those new to this technology to u nderstand. It will help you judge how HPC can best benefit your research\, and equip you to go on to successfully and efficiently make use of HPC fa cilities in future. The course will cover basic concepts in HPC hardware\, software\, user environments\, filesystems\, and programming models. It a lso provides an opportunity to gain hands-on practical experience and assi stance using an HPC system (ARCHER\, the UK national supercomputing servic e) through examples drawn from the life sciences\, such as biomolecular si mulation.\n\nRegistration\n\nRegistration is on a first-come\, first-serve d basis via https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/626/registration/\n\nLearning outcomes\n\nOn completion of the course\, we expect that attendees will u nderstand and be able to explain:\n \n    • Why HPC? - What are the drivers and motivation? Who uses it and why?\n    • The UK &\; EU HPC landscape - HPC facilities available to researchers\n    • HPC ha rdware - Building blocks and architectures\n    • Parallel computing - Programming models and implementations\n    • Using HPC systems\n         • Access\n        • Batch schedulers &\; resource allocation\n        • Running jobs\n        • Dealing wit h errors\n        • Compiling code\n        • Using librar ies\n        • Performance\n    • The Future of HPC\n\nPre-re quisites\n\nThis course follows on naturally from the BioExcel Summer Scho ol on Foundation skills for HPC in computational biomolecular research (ht tp://bioexcel.eu/events/bioexcel-summer-school/)\n\nFamiliarity with basic Linux commands (at the level of being able to navigate a file system) is recommended. You may find a Linux 'cheat sheet' such as http://www.archer. ac.uk/documentation/user-guide/linux.php#quickref useful if you are less f amiliar with Linux.\n\nNo programming skills or previous HPC experience is required.\n\nDesktop computers running Windows will be available\, howeve r you are encouraged to bring your own laptop (running Windows\, Linux\, o r macOS) as you will find it useful to learn how to set this up to connect to ARCHER (with assistance from course helpers if needed) and perform the hands-on practicals.\n\nBursaries\n\nBioExcel will be providing a limited number of fixed amount travel bursaries for this event. If you would like to be considered for a travel bursary email Vera Matser (matser [at] ebi. ac.uk). Eligibility criteria and conditions for the travel grants are avai lable at http://bioexcel.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/BioExcelTravelGrant .pdf\n \n\nTimetable\n\nWednesday November 29th\n\n10:00 - Welcome\, intr oduction\, and course overview\nReview of HPC skills and competencies fram ework\nFamiliarisation with fellow attendees\n\n11:00 - LECTURE - What is HPC?\n11:25 - PRACTICAL - Connecting to ARCHER\n11:30 - BREAK - Coffee &am p\; Tea\n12:00 - PRACTICAL - Sequence Alignment\n13:00 - BREAK - Lunch\n14 :00 - LECTURE - Parallel Computing Patterns\n14:30 - LECTURE - Measuring P arallel Performance\n15:00 - PRACTICAL - Sequence Alignment (continued)\n1 5:30 - BREAK - Coffee &\; Tea\n16:00 - PRACTICAL - Sequence Alignment ( continued)\n16:15 - LECTURE - Building Blocks - Software (Operating System \, Processes and Threads)\n16:45 - LECTURE - Building Blocks - Hardware (P rocessors &\; cores\, Memory\, Accelerators)\n17:15 - Review of the day \n17:30 - Finish\n\nThursday November 30th\n\n9:30 - Summary of day 1\n9:4 5 - LECTURE - Parallel Models\n10:30 - PRACTICAL - Fractal\n11:00 - BREAK - Coffee &\; Tea\n11:30 - PRACTICAL - Fractal (continued)\n12:00 - LECT URE - HPC Architectures\n12:30 - LECTURE - Batch Systems &\; Parallel A pplication Launchers\n13:00 - BREAK - Lunch\n14:00 - PRACTICAL - Molecular Dynamics\n15:00 - LECTURE - Compilers and Building Software\n15:30 - BREA K - Coffee &\; Tea\n16:00 - PRACTICAL - Molecular Dynamics (continued)\ n16:30 - LECTURE - Parallel libraries\n17:00 - Review of the day\n17:15 - Finish\n\n19:00 - Dinner at Amber restaurant\n\nFriday December 1st\n\n9:3 0 - Summary of day 2\n9:45 - LECTURE - Pipelines and workflows\n10:15 - PR ACTICAL - Molecular Dynamics (continued)\n11:00 - LECTURE - The UK &\; EU HPC Landscape\n11:30 - BREAK - Coffee &\; Tea\n12:00 - LECTURE - The Future of HPC\n12:30 - LECTURE - "Where next?" and things to remember\n13 :00 - Lunch\n14:00 - Individual consultations\, course review and feedback / competency survey\n15:00 - Finish\n\nCourse Materials\n\nwww.archer.ac. uk/training/course-material/2017/11/intro-epcc/index.php\n\n \n\nDinner\n \nThe course dinner will be held at the Amber restaurant\, located at the Scotch Whisky Experience near Edinburgh Castle\, on Thursday 30th November at 19:00.\nFor location and travel information see https://www.scotchwhis kyexperience.co.uk/plan-your-visit\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nhttps://events.pra ce-ri.eu/event/626/ SUMMARY:Hands-on Introduction to HPC for Life Scientists @ EPCC URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/626/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR